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# lll< >! Ml. Ull l_IIJLMJILWUJWMI^ I >* ? W IIBIIIIBI?ni?ITT~1??TTOmilHilll Mil IMIIIIII1IH ? lewis m. qbist, Proprietor, j j? |ni(?f?iri?il Jamil]) ^tftospagfr: Jor % |romoiian of t|? jjolifical, Social, Agricultural aai Cammmial Jnlmsts of % {TEEM8^iSiASR^i|B2c^,VAHCI VOLUME XII. " YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1868. NUMBER I& I i i ??? IPkfllanwtts. THE CONQUERED BANNER. Oo Wednesday last Mr. Wilkins, a school teaoher of Norfolk, was arrested by the military authorities and taken to Richmond, beoause he allowed the display of a minature Confederate flag daring the reoitation of some verses at a school celebration by some little girls. The flag was made of pa per. The Norfolk Virginian of Friday saya : "On Wednesday, by order of General Terry, acting beyond a doubt upon instructions from Washington, Mr. J. T. Wilkin* vu released from Libbv Drison. without the shadow of a trial upon any charge justifying his seise re by military authority, and confinement in a common guard-hooM." As some of oar readers may never have eeen the vereea in question, we reprint them herein-T5uE C02JQUEEED BMNEB. BY MOINA. [The Hev. A. J. Byan, Catholic Priest of Knoxvtlle, Diocese of Nash vilie Tenn.] Furl tint banner, for 'tis treary ; Bound lta stat' lis drooping dreary; Port it, fold U, it la best; For there's not a man to wave it. And there's not a sword to save it, And there's not one lett to lave it. In the blood which heroes gave It; And its foes now scorn and brave it; Furl it, hide it?let it rest. Take that banner down, his tattered! Broken Is Its staff and shattered! Over whom it floated high. Oh! tis bard for us to fold it? Hard to think there's none to bold it; Hard that those who enrolled it, Now must furl it with a sigh. . Fori that banner?furl it sadly? Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, And tea thousands wildly, madly, Swore It should forever wave? * Swore that foeman's sword would never Hearts like theirs entwined dissever; Till that flag should float forever O'er their freedom or their grave! Furl it 1 for the bands that grasped It, And the hearts that fondly crasped It, Cold and dead are lying low; And that banner?it is trailing! While around it sounds the wailing, UI 113 pcc,7tc in U1CU WW. For, though conquered, they adore it! Love die coid dead hands that bore it, Weep for those who fell before it! Pardon those who trailed and tore it! But Oh! wildly they deplore it, Now who Airl and fold it so. Furl that banner! true 'tis gory, Yet Us wreathed around with glory, And 'twill live in song and story, Though ha folds are In the dust; For la name on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages? Furl Its folds though now we must. Furl that banner, sofUy, slowly, Treat It gently?it is holy? For it droops above the dead, Touch it not, unfold it never, Let it droop there furled forever. For its people's hopes are dead! LIFE INSURANCE. Its Objects and Aims?One of the most important objects a man oao have in this world is to make sure his family will be provided for when he is taken away, and that they shall not be left homeless wao derera, having to get their living by toil or charity. To enable yon and every man to effect that, is at once the great aim, object, and pride of the institution of Life Iosnrsnoe, and yon effect it the moment yon take a policy on your life, in favor of your family. Creditors oannot attach it,?reverses in fortone oannot deprive yon or yonr family of it Life is proverbially uncertain. Every man most die. No man can say that he will live another year. Fortune is proverbially fickle?reverses come suddenly, when most unlooked for? even to the most prosperous. All business men are subject to them; and then in case of death of the head of the family, who is to provide for its future wants ? and how well adapted a Life Policy is to meet just suoh a contingency! Life Insuranoe effected by every man, there would be but few poor widows, or des titute orphans, friendless boys, to be battered by the oold world, and daughters to be killed by work, or ruined by wickedness; there would be no need for poor-houBes, and want and orime would in a great measure be prevented. It is accomplishing, and is destined to accomplish the greatest possible good to society, and is one of the best and most beneficent institutions of the age. Benjamin Franklin, noted for his wisdom and prudenoe, gave a bright illustration of his foresight and discernment when nearly one hundred years ago he thus wrote of Life Insurance:?Policy of Life Insurance is the Best and Safest Provision which a Man can make for his Family Its Basis and Principles.?Life Insuranoe is based upon principles established by nearly two hundred years' experience and observation. The average duration of life has thoq been definitely determined, and, with the soienoe of interest forms a sure basis for the calculations of companies effecting insuranoe upon life. In oonsidera 1 tion of the receipt of the premiums, they are enabled to guarantee the payment of a stipulated sum at a stipulated age, or at the death of the party insured. Death is sure to oceur, and though the time when in reference to each individual is wholly unknown, yet the average time of a large number, may bo ascertained with almost prophetio or mathematical certainty, and tables formed which are entirely reliable. Life Insuranoe is simply an investment of a certain sum steadily by thepersoD insured to be applied for the benefit of bis loved ones after bis decease, which investment is sure to be returned to them at a time when it will be the most needed. When large ; numbers of persons unite together for this, purpose, eaoh one is enabled to receive his proportion of the total average benefit of j such annual investment, no matter when he i ' j may be taken away, so that those who do j not live their average time shall bo sharers , in the good fortuno of those who exoeed it. It is this feature which makes Life Insurance so much more desireable than aocumu : lationa by means of savings banks. By it i is secured to the family of the iudividual, j the value of bis future labors for the average duration of life, even should he die the j next daj. The amount of this value will be' estimated by the individual himself aooording to his circumstances, the wants of his family, or his ability to pay, a larger or a smaller premium. Life Iosuraoce substitutes the certainty of a long provision for ones family for the < uncertainty of a long life in which to ac- j quire it. The Certainty of Life Insurance.? i Based upon fixed laws of mortality which j have been determined by two centuries of j observation, transactions in Life Insurance are not attended with .the uncertainties attached to all other branches of business, and it is now a conceded fact that a life policy is the most reliable investment that is offered to the public. Prof. De Morgan, one of the best authorities in the world, observes :?There is nothing in the commercial world which approaches even remotely to the security of a well established and prudently managed life insuranoe oompanB 79 ny. Life Insurance a Duty.?No man has a right to hazard the interests of his loved ones. The object of labor is to provide for the present and tbe future wants of those dependent upon us. Tbe great Lord Lyndhurst, High Chancellor of England, said in one of his judicial opinions:?"A Policy of Life Insurance is always an evidence of prudent forethought, and no man with a dependent family is free from reproach if his life is not insured " A Generous Offer ?Suppose some kind friend should offer you a deed of conveyance to your wife or children, of a piece of property good at your deoease. A house and lot or a farm worth five or ten thousand dollars, and constantly increasing in value, on condition you should pay the taxes thereon during your life-time. Would you hesitate to accede to such a proposal ? Or would you hestitate to accept the of fer of a few thousand dollars secured for the future benefit of your family by the pay ment of less than one-third the interest on the same. Would you value it less because you could not spend it or use it during your life time for vour own present wants. ? I Id fact, would it not be far more vala able, because secure from any infringement or liability whatever ? The security would add greatly to its value. A few thousand dollars, fully secured against ac approaching want, is worth millions of uncertainties. My friend, avail yourself of this certainty (while you are in health and can), by ap plyiDg to a Life Insurance Company and se curing a policy upon your life. A half hour thus spent may be worth more to your fami 1 ly than a whole life time of speculative ef- ' fort. While the well being of your family and the education of your children are at i stake, you should not let procrastination, 1 that great thief of time which has stolen ' many of your best interests, still oontiuue to 1 rob your loved ones. "Never leave until to-morrow what should be done to-day." "Who can observe the busy ant, ' And not provide for future want ?" I None too Poor to Insure.?At the , age of thirty years about six cents a day , will insure your life for SI,000. There are j few men in health in this country but can j spare that amount if they will, to protect j their family against destitution and want in , the eveDt of death. And who is there. . knowing the scarcity of charity, who will ( not abstaiu from some nseless luxury for the valuable consolation of securing the in- | dependence of bis family? t Truly, we should live and die for our loved ones. Who ought to-Insure.?Everybody who has any one depending upon him and oan possibly pay a premium, and there are few who cannot. It is almost the only way a poor man can secures protection for his family and an education for his ohildren in case of his decease. The man in moderate circumstances out to insure, because his wants are always nearly equal to his income, and he cannot spare from his bosiness or salary a large sum for permanent investment, and yet desires j to provide against leaving his family in absolute want at his death. In no other way , can he do this so easily and so surely. Eg pecially ought every clergyman and salaried man to be insured, indeed, every one whose income is dependent upoD his life. j The rich, because it is a good investment ' They can pay the premium without sacri- . ficing a luxury, and be sure of a return with j a fair interest added. The amount of a Life Policy in rendy ! money frequently saves an embarrassed es- ; f 1 _r . ^ I [ace irorn me sacriuce 01 an amount two or \ ( three times as large. | , But few men die rolled up like a silk- ! worm, who have Dot more or less obliga- \ ( tions to meet, requiring ready means to , , prevent great sacrifices; and oftentime a ( few thousand dollars thus t.mely contribu ; | ted saves the earnings of years of hard la- i ] bor Truly a Policy of Life Insurance is i a golden link, firmly binding, sure supply to ' ( approaching want. j When ought an Insurance to be Ef 1, pected ?Now. First. Because it costs j less than it will when you are older. ! | Second, Because if in health you will , pass a medical examination nna oeaccepted 1 ] which you have no guarantee you will be ' able to do hereafter ' | Third, Life i? uncertain; you may be in \ the grave in a siogle month, and your fa mi lycaoDCt afford the loss of your labors , Fourth, There is uo other way for you to ( accomplish the much desired object as easy , as by Life Insurance. ' , la proof of the first, we have only to say that the premium rates, year by year, are i I increasing as you grow older; so long as 1 you remain insured you continue to pay du- 1 ring life the same rates which are charged i at the age you make the first payment, al- ' though, by the addition of the dividends ] your policy may more than double its origi-; < al amount. < A man at the age of 45 years pays as 1 much per year for 92,000, as one at 20 rears i of age pays for 94,000, anpl at 50 years of ] age as much for 82,000 sb one at 20 does < for 84,750. I This, with the accumulations made to i each person inenred in the form of divi- I dends, alone offers great indnoements for in. I soring yonng. i In regard to the second, no Insurance Company will take a risk when the person i applying is not in sonnd health, with a fair | prospeot of a long life; henoe it behooves all i to avail themselves of its advantages before i the ravages of disease have marked them i and rendered their obanoes of acceptance i dumcful. I Id regard to the third, words are almost | useless; nearly every day faroifihes striking evidence of the danger of delay. Death suddenly overtakes those who least ezpeot it, and no one oan say I am certain to live a single week or even a day. . In regard to the fonrth it is easy to pay a small preminm, requiring but a few oents a day, to seonre a handsome policy, while it is exceedingly difficult to secure an amount equal to the policy in any other way From the Augusta Constitutionalist. Dr. J. McF. Gaston and Brazil. Upon the invitation of oitizens of Cothbert, this gentleman lately delivered a lec ture, in the Presbyterian dhorcb, upon the government, religion, institutions, manners and cn8toms, olimate, soil and productions of the empire of Brazil, having spent sinoe the downfall of the Confederacy, about five months in that country. I propose here a I short review of bis lecture, for tbe benefit i of those who may feel an interest in that sobject. As to myself, I am a native of Georgia, and entertain a steady pnrpose of adherring to her through all her changes cf fortune that may befal her daring my | life. As to Dr. Gaston, he is evidently a i gentleman of integrity, fairness and candor, and of no ordinary intelligence and power \ of discrimination. His person is agreeable, < his manners pleasing, aod style of impart- ] ing his information, while it is Dot oritori- \ oal, bat conversational, is brief, perspioQons, I instructing, and entertaining. While there is no effort at display, there is none at concealment. The attractive and unfavorable features of Brazil, as a home for Southern ers, are stated with apparent fairness; no persuasion is used, but all are left to form their opinions and shape their course upon their oonvictions of duty and the promptings of interest, after listening to a plain and unadorned narrative of facts. " The Government he defines to be a welldefined constitutional monarohy, resembling, in many of its features, that of Great Britain?having subsisted nearly fifty yearB since the revolt from Portugal, the mother country, and the establishment of Brazilian independence. The Legislative branch of Government, consisting of a Senate and House of Deputies, much resembling the British Parliament The Senate is chosen for life of the members, but it is not hered itary. Each province in which a vacany may occur nominates three persons out of which number the Emperor selects one, who is the Senator for life. The Empire is divided into provinces, somewhat like our States, regulating to some extent, their own intfci &] affairs, and over which the Emperor has but little control Their judioial jystem is well defined and well subserves the ends of justice. a Charges for violation of criminal law are t preferred by Magistrates instead of Grand t Juries, and then tried by a jury as here.? <3 rhe Catholic is the established religion of the Empire, bat other religions are freely e tolerated. Slavery exists in Brazil on a \ similar plan to that we bad before the late c mancipation. Their slaves are as good la- n borers, or, perhaps, rather better, and are b lbont us subordinate aB those we held in fc the Southern States. Their prices floctu- I ?te macb recenty, in consequence of the r ?enerally prevailing notion of the people o hat, at no distant day, the institution will b 39 abolished Dr. Gaston gave it as his opin- <j on that such would be the case within a t :ow years. n Free laborers can be hired in Brazil, of 1 x class which is not reliable for the perform- I iuce of a oontraot of any considerable length a >f time?but who work well for a short a time. Arrangements have been put on foot t by enterprising individuals who propose to q introduce as many European laborer as b may be demanded?and of a class that is s reliable. fi The officials and intelligent citizens b warmly favour emigration of people from li the Southern States, but are not disposed t to do any thing whiob might give offence li to the Government of the United States. r The laognage of the country is compara- r tively easy, especially to those who under- ii stand the latin. Dr. Gaston learned in the ii sourse of four months, to communicate with tl the people without an interpreter, which he b had had up to that time. o Ho divides the population into threo a classes. The first is ao educated aod intel- o ligent class who compare very favorably v with the best class in this country, in learn- tl iug virtue and integrity, benevolence and C hospitality, and all the virtues that tend to v uake ihem agreeable companions and re- c liable friends 1 The second is a class of honest and indus- b :ricus people, not much educated and far j c less uoliahed in their manners. ! e The third and lowest class is made up a jf.idie and indoleut people who live with- ti jut labor, for which the country is well e idapted, and who are igooraut, filthy and li worthless: li I was much astonished to bear the Doctor e tay, what I think it probable be most be e mistaken about, that the proportion of the !< 5rst class to the aggregate population, si s as great as it is in the Southern States, e rLis may be true io a few localities, aud p possio.y throughout the Empire. If so, one I )f the greatest objections to emigration is si ibviated. A stranger unable to speak tbe n anguage and to some eztent-a guest of tbe b authorities as Dr. Gaston was, and whose \ personal intercourse was necessarily re- a rtricted by oiroomstanoee, and who was led t to judge from appearanoee, and liable to be I misled by the extraordinary civilities shown to him, may probably be mistaken upon this important point as to the true state of society in Brazil. 1 The province which by common intent, 1 seems to be regarded as the plaoe for our < people is that of St. Paul's?bordering on 1 the coast extending for several hundred 1 miles to tbe interior aeroM navigable streams, embracing lands tbe most fertile in tbe world, with good water, about in I attitude 25; with aboot nine months summer sod three of very mild winter, with a temperature never above 85; abounding in all the tropioal fruits, yielding largely of migar, coffee, ootton and all the grains of this oonntry ezoept wheat, without the use of tbe plow, and almost without labor of any kind. Dr. Gaston gives many interesting details as to animals, fowls, inseots, system af agrioultore, modes of life by tbe natives, price of lands and animals, and the different productions of tbe oonntry, the disposition of their people towards us, their honesty and fidelity among themselves, the health end disease of the oountry, the cost of transportation thither, and upon many subjects which would well repay any enlightened tudieooe in the country to listen to. Dr. Gaston, I learn, is a South Carolinian, who was a surgeon in our army, and is now residing temporarily at Fort Gaines, Gleorgia, whenoe be expects to take bis eave permanently with his family for Bra til about next October. H. CUTHBERT, August 1. Battle Scene. Tbe correspondent of a Frenob journal gives tbe following grapbio narrative of what be saw at Custozza.: I found behind a hedge two dead bodies, which at first sight might have seemed in >aoh other's embrace; they were merely aying close to one another; they were officers who had fonght as in a duel; tbe Austrian lad passed his sword through the abdomen )f the Italian, and be had plunged his hroogh the body of tbe Austrian as far as 3 ;be bilt, and botb bad lallen face to raoe. We began to ezpenenoe some difficulty ( d walking, for the groand was farrowed by ( jaonoo balls and shells. Not a tree had Deen left standing, or intaot, and not one :raoe of the rioh vegetation of corn or flax, >r grape vine remained. We fell baok io ( mother direction, carving our way among * :mpty knapsacks, Keppie* and mnskets, ( vhich were strewing the groand all over? 1 rhere a duster of grenadiers overthrown 1 )y a charge of lauoers; farther on a company 1 )f Croates mowed down by grape and oan- ' Hter; on our left a dozen beesaglieri," ' with one half of their bodies carried away; 1 >n our right a few Jagers disembowelled 1 with bayonets. Tbe cavalry rushed on and J jut to pieoes the Hokenlohe infantry regi- * nent, says my traveling oompanion. Not | >ne Italian dead soldier left with bis silver v nedal hanging on his breast, and all the lorpses shoeless, oaroases of dead horses aying upon or near the dead bodies of heir riders Abont thirty Italian and Aus rian dead soldiers fallen pell-mell apon me another, struok our sight; we drew lear?''water, water," cries a voice. We aised the dying soldier, while the Count pplied to bis parobed lips a bottle eonaining a mixture of brandy, ooffee and waer; the wounded soldier swallowed a Iraught with intense avidity, then fell back ?dead. Oo opening his ooat we discoverd that a musket ball bad pieroed bis breast. Ye had scarcely gone fifty steps when we ame to a lake of blood, looking like an im nense slaughter pen. Great God, what ias taken place here ? The dead bodies by inndreds concealed the ground to our view. ' t was a square upon the top of a hill, aound a house demolished byoannoo balls; ver a first stratum of dead bodies mangled y the cavalry there laid a second stratum rushed by the artillery which had run over hem, then other layers, and then again I oore. All was silent confusion and horror 1 ' ?bere they had fought with all arms.? t fragments of human bodies scattered all v round, spoke of the fearful work of grape ( od shells; horrible gashes in the face, on p he neck, on the shoulders, told too elo S [uently that the cavalry had there dealt t <lows with frantic rage; and shattered c kalis gave evidence of the share revolvers v ired point blank bad bad in the mighty n utchery. The open ohests, the torn bel- tl ies showed tbe terrible hand to hand, face C o faoe, fight by bayonets, swords and il ances. Dead men, dead horses, muskets, J evolvers, cannons, swords, caissons, shakos, y ifies, cartridge boxes, koapsacks, cavalry, v atantry and artillery, an tniogiea id app&*> i< ag confusion ; the soldier apoa the officer, r be caisson opon the horse, streams of 8 lood trickling on all sides along the flank f the hill. We were about to le&7e, when t! vivid dash illumines, on & sadden, the si pposite hill strewed with corpses. We \ ralked to it through a path oovered with 1< be dead bodies of handreds of bersaglieri. ) one side we behold a heap of bodies r< rhich once belonged to the Alessandria ri avalry; on the top we found a number of si Austrian artillerymen cut to pieces. The e attcry placed on that hill had been silen- t< ed by a cavalry charge, and the men butch- a red to the very last. The Italian soldiers a re cut in the face, on the head; the Aus- o rians sabered, run through with the bayou I t. Horses without number lay with tbeir I >mbs in the air; four or five gun carriages b iy scattered in pieces Here, too, another u vidence of life stops our career : we list y n ; a voice groans from under a pile of S javes and stocks. "Help, help for God's si ake." It is a bersaglieri from the Southrn provinces, wbo is dying, and calls for a p riest; he asks me if be is exoommnnieated tl addressed bim io his own dialect; he w eemed soothed and consoled, for he believes c< je. Wounded in the faoe and io the ohest Y y the explosion of a shell, he cannot lire; ii ve can do nothing for him. Bat we were slready satiated with horrors, and the first )lash of the morning was upon op. At lalf-past four we were baok into Qvito. Interesting to Freedmen. We find the following letter from the Pilaneial Secretary of the American Colonisation Society published in oar Georgia izehanges. In connection with it, we oopy he following comments of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. Many of the colored people are inspired with a laudable ambition to rise ia the social icale above the general degradation of their nee. jls u very evident tut, do mattor low many civil rights bills sod declarations )f equality camber oar statute books, the ffhite race is boand to be the governing slass. It is so in New England, where most if the pestilent obampioos of eqoaHty originate, and it baa been so from the ime Noah entered the ark, wherever the wiriio ind black raoes come in contact. It is not itrange, therefore, that the colored people, vbo wish to have a fair and open field io he race of advancement, should seek the and of the blaok man, where all the aveoies of advancement are open, and where here can be no jostling of raoes. The his :ory of Liberian progress, it is true, is not if the most cheering charaoter It is mooh airer, however, than the history of those ooalities where the oolored people have longht political power in connection with , he white race. The only plaoe in history where the oolired man, as a raoe, has made any progress n the scale of oivilisatioD, has been in the sondition of servitude. The voice of civilisation and philanthropy (so called) have torn rim from that congenial and happy sphere, md inspired bim with restless loogipgs for i condition of equality whioh is inoompatble with the stractare of oar society?ablurent to reason and repugnant to nature, [t is better, therefore, that those who aspire ,o rise above a condition of dependenoe, ihould be colonized and removed from the listarbing influences which attend tbeir present condition. It is for these reasons hat we commend the ciroalar of the Colonisation Society to the attention of all freed nen who have imbided the teachings of jquality which have obtained misohievous jnrrenoy among tbera : Colonization Rooms, Washington, D. C., Aug 6, 1866. My Dear Sir : In your paper of a late late, yon mention that many of the colorid people of yoar State are agitating the }neetion of going to Liberia, and yon want ;o*know where are the agents of the Colonisation Society. It ip true, we have no agent it present in your State, but we have not jeen idle. We have written to many, and lave Sent copies of the African Repository, md of our last annual report and of varioas racts and abort articles to thousands in roar State. We have bad many letters torn persons in Maoon and in Sparta ; and ire have promised to have a ship ready at lavannah the 1st of November, to take one lundred people from eaoh plaoe, and about ifty to seventy five from Newberry Distriot, loath Carolina, and we promise them a free iassage to Liberia, and six months support here. And we are prepared to promise he same to as many worthy people as will >e read; to sail by the 1st May, 1867. We shall be happy to have yoa state these acts in your paper, and say to any one who rants to go this tall or next spring, that if hey will inform as, we wiH give them all nformstion and every facility in oar power. I send yoa herewith specimens of the raots we are circulating among the oolored teople. Yoa may find in them material for , paragraph that will do good. We will send you the Repository regoarly, if yoa desire it, that yoa may see that is going on in this clime. W. McCLAIN, Financial Secretary, A. 0. S. The Testimony of a Candid Man. In bis recent great speech at Saratoga few York, Senator Doolittl9 said : Having received a letter from a man of he Sooth who was ooce in Congress, and rhom I knew very well?I refer to Mr )urry, of Alabama, and who is now the iresident of one of the colleges in that Itate?-and he having stated in bis letter o me that the South was completely carriatured in some of the testimony whioh ras given before the Reoonstrootion Com- i aittee in Washington, and having made i hat statement on the authority of Mr. i lurry in the Senate of the United States, ' t drew from a gentleman in the State of i Tew York, who may be known to some of ou present, and whose name 1 will not 1 rithhold? I refer to Colonel Tarbell?a < atter, an extract from which [ will now < ead. Speaking of the condition of the loutb, he says: 'Allow me to say that I have been in he States of Georgia, Alabama and Mia- < issippi, since December last; that I was a 7hi? and am a Renublican. And hence I joked oloaely at Southern society. "I have no hesitation in denouncing the aports in the Northern newspapers of outages upon the blacks and upon Northern ottiers as utter fabrications or malicioas xaggerations. I travelled by rail, by wa;r, ou horsebaok, on foot, in company, and lone?by day and by night?totally unrated except a pocket knife?purposely, peoly, and frankly declaring to every one was a 'Yankee and a Black .Republican ' met others who bad traveled on horseaok from Florida to Mississippi, who like ie, were Republicans?and I do assure ou I would sooner travel throughout the outh than the North, so far as personal ifety is concerned. "To go from here to the South is like ossing oat of the work of the week into ie Sabbath?all is quiet?all are trying to ork for a living?for all are on a level and ampelled to work with their own hands, ankee laud does not present a more active, idustrious scene than the whole South, or could Yankees display more energy, is* I tegrity, and recuperative power in standing i on nothing. " 1 "To say that the Soutb is 'caricatured' ! in the North, does not express it. She is i slandered', villified, wickedly, iofamoasly i belied. Were the Sooth to oome North < she would not recognize herself?if she did, she would disown herself. Were the North to go Sooth, she would be astonished at the < misrepresentations and falsehoods, and with i the cruelly on just and erroneous sentiments prevailing here." i Fusing over many facts whioh he mentioned, I send the otodng paragraph: "I assure you, air, that this terrifio pub lio opinion that is driving the North to the support of the stoftliog end dangerous centralisation of power in Congress is based upon falsehood and misrepresentation. "Af I expect to be judged by my Maker on the great day of final judgment, I state to yon solemnly, that from extensive travels in these States, from conversation with all classes and colors, and after listening to hundreds, I believe, before high Heaven, that all these newspaper reports of hatred to and outrages upott blacks by whites, and of the molestation of Northern settlers, are baselees, wicked fabrications, concocted and reported expressly to crash this fearful public opinion which should sustain the change of the fundamental principles of the Constitution." The State House of Sooth Carolina. The mot* beautiful buildingin the South, if not in the United States, would have been, when completed, the Capitol of South Carolina. It bad before the war assumed dimension and given tokens of the rare taste dit^l'syod in its construction, which bad elicited the warmest encomiums of the oritio and traveller. But to-day it stands chief among the monumental ruins of Colombia, an emblem eloquent with unnttered ourses upon Sherman and his horde. Presenting a conspicuous mark to the artillery of the enemy planted on Lexington heights, the edifice received ten shots. The finely soulptured oak leaf decorations of the marble door pilasters at the main entrance, were defaced. The beaks of the eagles have been knooked off and the corner stones on the South-west corners were damaged by fire. But the injuires to the strooture itself are insignificant oompared with those done by fire to the finished marble-work and rough materials in the precincts of the State House yard. Forty of the Soulptured Corinthian Capitals designed for the porticoes and wrougnt id oar own Desatiiai granite, are destroyed. Oat of sixty-fire Coriatbian Capitals, worked in Italian marble, intended for the great marble ball, only five are saved All tbe polished shafts of Tennessee marble are destroyed, and nearly all tbe otber marble work and paving tiles in both kinds of marble designed for the interior construction and decoration, with a large portion of tbe balustrade to crown the bailding, and the terrace designed to surround tbe lower part. Besides these, were destroyed hundreds of immense and valuable nnwrongbt blocks of granite and marble, machinery, workshops, tools, colossal jnodels and unfinished statnes. In the loss may be included tbe baao-rdievo likenesses of Hayne and McDuffie, and one of tbe latest and best basts of Hon. John C. Calhoun. But one store-bonse, containing a quantity of polished Tennessee marble remains uninjnred. Of the old State House and its valuable library, nothing remains bat blaokened ruins. The railroad traok to tbe Granby quarry has been destroyed and tbe wood 1 work carried away. Major Nlernsee, tbe accomplished arobi- 1 tect, to whose report we are indebted for 1 these details, likewise suffered a severe loss 1 in architectural and scientific books, pic- 1 tores, engravings, instruments and several 1 thousand drawings, all the valuable documents relating to the New State House, maps, drawings, reports, calculations, specifications, oootraots wbioh had aooumnlated I 1 aL- l?i 1 1 during me last teu yeara. The total loss to the State is estimated by Major N , to be $700,000. The debris was gathered by the architect in charge as far as the means at his command would permit, and deposited in one of the sheds, and the Capital, lonely and deserted, is now surrounded by a plain board fence. It is thought that the sum of one hundred aad forty-sis thousand dollars would fit op and secure the building for the purposes of Legislation and Stale offioes; and that three hundred and sixty thousand dollars would oomplere the edifice is nearly the manner originally designed?South Carolinian. A German Estimate or Yankee 3wagger.?A late German paper publish3d in this country, thus speaks: The interest taken by the Americans in the present German war is greater than it has been in former warlike events of the old world, and we do not regret this is so. rbe Americans yet see before them all the ietaiU of their own civil war. They have in* vpf fnrcnttfin the endlftfin timn whinh a tras required to strike heavy blows on the c rebels. They know their own sacrifices in noney, blood and time for the capture of Richmond, Mobile, Atlanta and Savannah, rhey saw that even their most exalted generals could achieve great results only by ilow process aod with disproportionate sac ifioes. They were ungrateful to the able German officers, and they did not protect ;bem sufficiently against the infauious maohi> rations of Amerioan Generals who systenatioally pushed the German Generals in ;he background, whilst they knew how to nake their own native ignoranoe and inca- c raoity valuable. They were so muoh ao- a instomed to worthless offioera that they 2 aised even the smallest of their suocesses Q o ;he clouds, aud they proclaimed any b ifficer a Napoleon, a Haonibal and a Caesar p for Ma most insignificant saooees, ff be WM ocly a native born American ; md when finally, after a resistance of four yeate, tie Booth ooold not hold oat any longer wfth its one hondred and seventy thousand men against the million of the North, they declared themselves the greatest warBke nation on the- earth; and they barnt in the most ridiculous manner sveh twmw quantities of incense for their general^ that my body Who did not look at the nght through the spectacles of national vanity, was an object of pity and flisguet. The eieiita in Bohemia have opened the eyes of the Americans in the most erne! way. They hare shown them bow war ahodd be earned on, aod of what value the perfoman cm or Messrs. tfrant, Sherman, Sheridan and all the other American Ifspoleons wen. Compere only whet the PhMMW army aohiered in seventeen days with the deeds of oar greatest Amerioao generals. ' ' Rates or Postaqi.?The rates of postage on letters to be forwarded in the oaflsj to any part of the Dinted Atatea, is three cents per half ounce, pre-paid. The postage on letters dropped fw tbe poet offioe for delivery is two oents per half oaooe, pre-paid.' Transient newspapers, pamphlets, proof* sheets, book- mannsoripts, sample-cards, photograph oards, cards, maps, blanks, blank paper, engravings, envelopes, seeds, roots, scions, and printed matter, (except oiroolara and books,) are rated at two oents for overy fonr oanoee, or fraction thereof, penpaid. v- - ? Doable the above rates oharged lor books Unsealed circulars, one and not easediog three in notnber in one envelop*, are oharged two oente; and in that proportion for a. greater .number, to one addns^ prepaid. -stf- ?'.! ' Canada and the British provisoes,-tan cents per half ounce, pro-payment optional. ? '... a: Newfoundland, ten oents per hallovnee, moat be pre paid. -*?* Great Britain and Ireland, twenty- kr oents per half oaooe, pre-paymeat optional. - : . France, fifteen oents per quarter oaooe, pre payment optica*! The postage on all letters depoaitadlot delivery or to be forwarded by mall to any part of the Uuitod States, (or to any foreign ooaotry to wbioh pre payment is required,) moat be pie paid by postage stampa. Letters deposited without being properly prepaid, are sent immediately to the dead letter office, Washington. Money orders upon any money order office may be procured The financial Prospects. Notwithstanding oor political troubles, the brief statements we publish from tima to time, issued from the Treasury Department, are quite enconraging. From one of the most recent of these bulletin*, we learn that the national debt has been redaeed daring the year ending the 1st inst., to an amount nearly of $125,000,000 Aod after all this has been done, there ia still left in the Treasury, according to the report of the Seoretary, the sum of $187,317,382.? These are highly encouraging figures, sod dispel any apprehension with regard to any disaster arising from the large amount of the debt of the Government Had it not been for radical legislation, reckless sa it was, both politically aod financially, this favorable exhibit would have been dill stronger than it even now is. With the restoration of all the States, and the ooaseqaent prosperity of snoh notion, with the overthrow of the radicals, aod their reokless extravagance, and wader the wise management of saoh a prsctioal and clear-headed financier as the head of the department, Secretary McCuiloch, there need not be anv fear of aov deDreniation in w 7 af ? . "+m.J?C? Government securities, or the decline of the eations's oredit, in any stock market in the world.?Phoenix. ^ A Singular Case.?Mr. Charles T. Cbamblin, at the time he wae wounded, a lieutenant in the 8th Virginia regiment, soughed from his throat a few days since, i minnie ball that had been lodged there Eor mora than four years. He was shot at "Seven Pines," June 1,1862, the ball entering the side of the nose just below the eft eye. It was probed four inches, and round to have passed nearly perpendicularly o, scarcely missing the brain. It dinbled lim for duty, and has ever sinee eanssd nuch pain in damp weather, frequently rendering it almost impossible to swallow it all. When ooogbed up on Tuesday evening lasi, it seemed to have oome from just jelow the right ear, uoder the jaw bone, tod caused but little pain, and was followed >y no blood. It was an ounee minnie, not l a _ i r* t _t _ t.i a nasnea out 01 original a nape, aitaoagn looted by conouaaion with the booes in the ace. The oomiog forth of the ball caosed i soreneas in the throat aod a giddioeai in be head for a day or two, bat nothing more. Leesburg ( Fa.) Mirror. Cotton at Sea.?According to official tatistios published in Liverpool* the anoaot of cotton on its way to Liverpool, at aat aoooonts, was as follows: FromBom>ay, 403,022 bales; from Madras, 19,240; rom Trinoomlee, 0,178; from Coooonda, 1,988; from Rangoon, about 6,000; from iurrachet, 11.891: from Calcutta, 128, >13; from Tatioorio, 2,575: from Shangiae, 15,874 piouls; from New Orleans, .1,337 bales; from Galveston, 2,694; from \palacbicoIa one ship, oargo not stated; rom Pensaoola, one cargo not stated; from jharleslon, 978 ; and two ships from New fork and Savannab, also with onestimated argoes. To London there are 22,766 hales ,t sea from Madras; from Oalootta, SI,123; from Bimlipatim, 369; from China, loohin and Totioorin, 20,280; from Bomay and Korraobee, 11,350; and from Jaan, 310 bales.